August 20, 2009
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The Colder the Dew, The Smaller the Drops
The sun rises before I do these days. Days are still reasonably long, but getting shorter fast. Sunrise: 6:17 AM; sunset: 9:47 PM — fifteen and a half hours of daylight today. With clearing skies and the chill I felt in the air last night, I went to bed thinking we might have our first frost since the Summer Solstice — that’s right, our last frost of the previous winter was on the Summer Solstice. That’s somewhat unusual, but not unprecedented. We’ve had frost in early July some years, which made it hard to say if it was last winter’s last or next winter’s first. Frost in mid-August is not unusual.
The first thing Doug said to me this morning when I awoke was, “I didn’t see any frost this morning, but we had some very cold dew.” In my mind’s eye, I could see what he meant: the droplets so pinpoint tiny the only visible difference between them and frost is that frost sparkles and the cold dew looks matte gray from a distance.
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blast from the past
“my” muskeg 4 years and 1 month ago—–
Topic jump –I’m doing a lot of emotional release lately. Some of it is my emotion, but most of it comes in from outside. I’m an empathic sponge that occasionally needs to be wrung out, to use a dreadful and horribly deficient metaphor. I hope somebody understands what I mean, but I don’t expect most people to get it. When large groups of people anywhere, or individuals or smaller groups either mentally attuned to me or geographically near to me, are feeling strong emotions, I pick them up.
When these intrusive emotions resonate with me, either in harmony with my own emotions or in dissonant conflict with them, I could be in trouble — anywhere from mildly upset to madly insane — if I were not to let these feelings go. A lot of my energy has gone into that lately, not so much in the release, which is effortless, but in monitoring my feelings and recognizing when I need to release. I am grateful for my connectedness: online news and search engines in general, Xanga and Facebook in particular, for enabling me to sort it out. Years ago, discerning the source(s) of my exogenous feelings was an iffier and slower process.
Right now, my jaws and shoulders are tensed from the mental effort of finding words to express all that, and I’m not at all sure that I have done it adequately. I’m going to stop trying now, and do some stretching to release the physical tension. Seeya later.
Comments (5)
I pick up others emotion also…the function of my eyes/ears have made its way to my heart
learning its not good for my health
It was very cool here this morning… we may be in for an early fall. July was far cooler than normal as well. Which is good for the heating bill, I suppose, and comfort level.
And I think I get what you’re saying… so you’ve articulated well enough, me thinks.
I have a close friend who just moved up to Anchorage with her young son from Maryland this Summer. The contrast is incredible. We’re going to take a trip to Alaska to see her sometime next year. I really can’t wait. I love experiencing the opposite of my everyday life and routine. I live for those kind of experiences!
Su-su, I have been waiting and praying for someone to say the words you did in your second paragraph! I know exactly what you mean by, “I hope somebody understands what I mean, but I don’t expect most people
to get it. When large groups of people anywhere, or individuals or
smaller groups either mentally attuned to me or geographically near to
me, are feeling strong emotions, I pick them up.”
Yes! Everyday! Sometimes every moment. I am a sponge of external energy. Mix that with my own internal issues and it sometimes makes for quite the storm. I feel it physically in my muscles, and it’s very painful. Sometimes a whole muscle group will tighten up on me and pulse like lava. I’ve been doing some grounding exercises. They seem to work when I put the rest of the noisy world aside to do them.
Ah! Thank you for showing me that I am not the only goofball in the Universe that has this double-edged gift!
-Cellina
@eternityseye21 - Thanks for your feedback. It helps knowing that somebody understands because she experiences the same thing.
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